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Steps to College Reading provides students extensive practice developing basic reading skills at a new value price .

Designed for the most basic developmental reading course (Grades 6ׯ), Steps to College Reading emphasizes the idea of reading as a three-step process through a "prepare --read --respond" strategy. More assistance is provided to students with the pre---reading step than in other texts. Pre--reading questions precede each selection. Reading passages cover a broad range of topics that will interest students and be relevant to their college work. Chapters contain numerous short pieces for illustration and practice and move to longer pieces for more sustained reading. However, because the book is designed for the more basic course, the readings are always of a manageable length for students.

Steps to College Reading differs from its more advanced companion text, The Reading Context , by providing shorter and simpler explanations of key concepts; by using more visuals to accommodate alternate learning styles; by providing more vocabulary work; by covering reading rates; and by using simpler readings. This text offers more help with reading textbook material and provides full chapters on understanding the difference between specific and general statements, understanding implied ideas, reading graphics, and responding to expressive and persuasive writing.

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• Most chapters begin with Prepare to Read and conclude with Chapter Review Quiz
• Preface
• 1 Getting Started
• Commit
• Concentrate
• Know about Reading
• Be an Active Reader
• How the Sun Came
• Tips for Staying Well
• 2 Developing a Reading Strategy
• Prepare to Read
• Why Have a Reading Strategy? Prepare-Read-Respond: How the Steps Connect
• Prepare
• Read
• Respond
• Open Season: Children as Prey
• Hydrogen and the Hindenburg
• 3 Word Power 1: Using Context Clues and Building Vocabulary
• Context Clues
• Learning New Words
• A Brief Book List
• Opposing Principles Help Balance Society
• 4 Word Power 2: Recognizing Word Parts and Knowing Your Dictionary
• Compound Words
• Learning from Word Parts: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
• Knowing Your Dictionary
• Pronunciation
• Abbreviations Used in Dictionary Entries
• Working with Word Meanings
• Defining English
• 5 Distinguishing between General and Specific Statements
• General and Specific Statements
• Levels of Specificity
• Recognizing General and Specific Sentences
• Understanding Complicated Sentences
• In the Rain Forest
• 6 Understanding Main Ideas
• Identifying a Paragraph's Topic
• Identifying Main Ideas
• Reading Longer Passages
• The Summary
• The Pyramids
• 7 Recognizing Strategies and Structures in Writing
• Explaining by Listing
• Time Sequence and Process
• Definition
• Comparison and Contrast
• Cause and Effect
• Mixed Patterns
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Neat People vs. Sloppy People
• 8 Reading Graphics
• How to Read Graphics
• Pictures and Photographs
• Diagrams
• Maps
• Tables
• Graphs and Charts
• Graphs Can Lie, Easy as Pie
• 9 Reading and Studying for College Classes
• Reading Textbooks
• Writing-to-Learn Strategies
• Learning from Three Textbook Sections
• Reinforcing Learning in Class
• Preparing for Testing
• 10 Reading More Efficiently
• Scanning
• Skimming
• Improving Visual Skills
• Improving Visual Skills through Improved Spelling
• Efficient Reading through Aggressive Reading
• Timed Reading I
• Some Principles of Communication
• Timed Reading II
• The Rude Awaken
• Timed Reading III: Lefton and Valvatne, Coping, Health, and a Positive Attitude
• 11 Drawing Inferences and Understanding Implied Main Ideas
• What Are Inferences? Drawing Inferences from Reading
• Connotation
• Figurative Language
• Characteristics of Appropriate Inferences
• Understanding Implied Main Ideas
• Drawing Inferences and Understanding Implied Meanings in Longer Passages